Circuit Judge · Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court
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320 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Rochelle Curley across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Family Division 1 — Sarasota County
Circuit Family Division 1. AO 2026-05.4 renders the name "Rochelle T. Curley".
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. The missing photo is a court fact, not a harvest gap.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt, Susan H. Rothstein-Youakim
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1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 320 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 87 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 16, 2009–June 26, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating. Showing the 50 most recent; all 87 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
ABRAHAM SIMMONS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA VS ROBB MELHUS WALLIN
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
M. M. vs DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Denied
TANNER MICHAEL VIRTUE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LARRY BERNARD PACE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
YOUNG v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN J RABIDEAU vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH WAYNE STODDARD vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ERDEK v. CHARBONNEAU
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Schermick v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NIKETA LASHUN SHERRILL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs SHAQUILLE WILLIAMS
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
STEVEN J. RABIDEAU VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MCCLAIN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LEROY ROBERSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KEVIN G. THOMAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEFFREY L. RYAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
THIELE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY ZITO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOSHUA WILLIAMS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs CAMERON ANTOINE PETE
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KINN S. WEBER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs DUSTIN PRINCE
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA v. SALAZAR-DIAZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA VS THOMAS PELTIER
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
EDWARD P. RUTHERFORD VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DIEUJUSTE SIMON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs GEOVANY RODRIGUEZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CALVIN DELEON TURNER, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANARIEST JZOHNEA TAYLOR vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Kopel v. Kopel
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
GLADARERINE DISMAS TAYLOR VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
K. E. M. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
S. M. P. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
DAVID L. TAYLOR vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs CEDRIC L. WHITE
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jackowska v. Blessitt
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
STATE OF FLORIDA VS ERNEST PANEBIANCO
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
JOSEPH SCOTT TORRES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A. P. vs DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAYSON K. WATSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LEROY ROBERSON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RANDALL L. WRIGHT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EDWARD G. WINN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TYRONE ROGERS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
COREY SOARES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EDWARD G. WINN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA VS GINO JAMES ZOPPE
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BONNIE LYNN STEADMAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LUIS GALAN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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